Mubadala, Together AI forge Abu Dhabi partnership

Mubadala Investment Company and Together AI have entered a strategic partnership to develop artificial intelligence infrastructure and ecosystem opportunities in the UAE. The American tech firm will establish a local presence in Abu Dhabi, bringing its inference and research capabilities closer to customers and developers creating generative AI applications across the UAE and the broader region.

Together AI's platform, described as an AI Native Cloud, offers services for inference, computing, model shaping, and pre-training. This collaboration aims to deepen engagement with developers, enterprises, and other participants in the UAE's growing AI sector. The partnership's financial terms and scale of investment remain undisclosed.

As Abu Dhabi expands its investment in computing infrastructure, advanced research, and commercial applications, Mubadala has identified technology and artificial intelligence as crucial areas within its investment strategy. Together AI has been expanding its infrastructure footprint to meet the growing demand for open-source AI models and inference capacity.

The company, which has over one million AI engineers and researchers using its services, raised $800 million in a Series C financing round in July, raising its valuation to $8.3 billion. Together AI has also formed AI infrastructure and cloud services agreements with Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN and IBM, highlighting the increasing competition to place high-performance AI computing closer to regional users.